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Re: Is this normal ?

Do you think you have pathogen resistant or hygienic bees?
I agree it looks like a pupa extracted from a capped cell before it fully developed.
Read up on hygienic bees or queens. See if your observation is consistent.

Just curious... do you treat your bees for mites or other diseases?
We don't... All our hives survived the winter. We see the occasional pupa too...
and a few DWV bees and a few crawlers, but all the hives are building now.
(We live in Oakland, Ca)
Jerry

Re: Is this normal ?

Originally Posted by gtp086

Do you think you have pathogen resistant or hygienic bees?
I agree it looks like a pupa extracted from a capped cell before it fully developed.
Read up on hygienic bees or queens. See if your observation is consistent.

No I don't think so , I got my bees from traditional beekeeper nearby .

Originally Posted by gtp086

Just curious... do you treat your bees for mites or other diseases?
We don't... All our hives survived the winter. We see the occasional pupa too...
and a few DWV bees and a few crawlers, but all the hives are building now.
(We live in Oakland, Ca)
Jerry

I don't treat them with any thing , they don't have mites or any diseases that I know of.
they are working hard building comb , I think they looks healthy

Re: Is this normal ?

I do not think that a single event is telling anything. It might be "normal" or may be a beginning of something. Many bees are able to recognize infected by varroa pupa in the sealed cell - they may remove such pupa from the cell to prevent varroa spread. I believe, most bees do it all time but normally we do not see it because they do cleaning usually at night and move dead bodies away from the hive early in the morning (smart!) At least, this is how my bees behaved. Also, sometime you may damage some cells during the inspection - bees will clean them up. I also recently learned that bees are able to identify genetically imperfect drones and remove them from the cells. Fascinating!

Re: Is this normal ?

Originally Posted by cerezha

I do not think that a single event is telling anything. It might be "normal" or may be a beginning of something. Many bees are able to recognize infected by varroa pupa in the sealed cell - they may remove such pupa from the cell to prevent varroa spread. I believe, most bees do it all time but normally we do not see it because they do cleaning usually at night and move dead bodies away from the hive early in the morning (smart!) At least, this is how my bees behaved. Also, sometime you may damage some cells during the inspection - bees will clean them up. I also recently learned that bees are able to identify genetically imperfect drones and remove them from the cells. Fascinating!

Re: Is this normal ?

That doesn't look like a drone though, I only asked if you inspected recently as you may have damaged some comb, but if it's been a week that wouldn't be the issue. Pupa get removed time to time, it's not really a big deal.

Re: Is this normal ?

Originally Posted by JRG13

That doesn't look like a drone though, I only asked if you inspected recently as you may have damaged some comb, but if it's been a week that wouldn't be the issue. Pupa get removed time to time, it's not really a big deal.